Chlamydia

Chlamydia signs and symptoms are the same for circumcised and uncircumcised males. Half of males get no symptoms from chlamydia. For those who get symptoms, they may be:

1. A discharge from the penis;

2. A burning sensation and/or pain when passing urine;

3. Pain and swelling in the testicles.

Chlamydia doesn't cause HIV or gonorrhea, but all patients with gonorrhea should be evaluated for all STIs.

Someone with anal chlamydia may have rectal pain. Patients who have receptive anal intercourse, as well as women originally infected vaginally who do not have anal intercourse, can be infected in the anus.

A baby gets infected in the lungs with chlamydia trachomatis, the germ that causes the STD known as chlamydia, by being infected during vaginal birth.

Adults do not get chlamydia trachomatis in their lungs. However, a different bacteria, Chlamydia pneumonia, is a common cause of bronchitis and pneumonia in children and adults. This infection is not sexually transmitted.

A person infected with Chlamydia pneumonia has inflammation of the air passageways inside the lungs. Chlamydia pneumonia causes about 1 out of 10 cases of pneumonia in the US. The illness responds well to treatment with antibiotics.

The prescription drug Zyban (bupropion hydrochloride) has shown some success. This drug contains no nicotine, and was originally developed as an antidepressant. It isn't known exactly how bupropion works to suppress the desire for nicotine.

"Chlamydia" is the common name for the disease caused by the bacertium that has the scientific name Chlamydia trachomatis. This was the name given to the bacterium by those who researched it because the term comes from the Greek word meaning "cloak" since most people who have the disease do not know it since it often does not cause symtpoms (they are "cloaked"). It was first discovered in 1907, but I have never see that the credit for its discovery has been given to one scientist in particular.

The best antibiotic for chlamydia depends on patient characteristics like age, medical history, allergy status, and other medications. At this point, 1 g of azithromycin is the cheapest and easiest alternative. Both this treatment and doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for seven days work equally well.

Yes, you can be infertile after having chlamydia, but most people who had chlamydia are not infertile. You should abstain from vaginal sex or use contraception if you don't want to get pregnant. Untreated chlamydia and gonorrhea can cause scarring which can impair fertility, but a history of chlamydia doesn't mean you can't get pregnant. In women, one in five with chlamydia develops pelvic inflammatory disease, sometimes without knowing. Of that fraction, one in five will be infertile.

Painful urination should go away within a week of gonorrhea antibiotics. If you still have painful urination after a week, contact your health care provider for advice. Antibiotic resistance is an increasing problem in gonorrhea, so you must make this call.

About 3% to 6% in the US have chlamydia at any given time. Rates of infection in the general population appear to be the same among males and females, although female reported cases are higher (likely due to programs encouraging screening in young women). In females, 50% will have chlamydia by the age of 30. The rates are probably similar for males. See related link for references.

You can get chlamydia after use of steroids. But the steroids don't cause it. You get chlamydia from sexual contact with an infected person. You can get chlamydia from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.

A health care provider will need to prescribe the medication for your partner. Many states have laws that allow expedited partner therapy, meaning that your health care provider can prescribe treatement for the partners of any patients with chlamydia without an appointment. Talk with your health care provider to see if this is possible in your area.

Absolutely. There are effective and safe treatments, and it would be best for a pregnant woman to get treated before delivery. Please talk with your prenatal health care provider about this matter as soon as possible.

You can not compare the infections like that. Yeast infection will demand early treatment as it is trouble some. It can be easily diagnosed and can be treated easily. Chlamydia infection may go unnoticed and can get treated incompletely . So it can land up in serious complications, at times.

You can't get chlamydia from a genital scar. Chlamydia is spread by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You can get it from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.

Yes, chlamydia can be transmitted orally.
You can catch chlamydia orally.
Yes, a male can catch or transmit chlamydia orally.
It would depend. if the infection is oral, then yes. Chlamydia is a micro-organism, specifically the bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, one that attacks mucous membranes. The mouth is one of the sites it can infect, and can be passed from mouth to mouth, or any infected site to any other mucous membrane.

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease that can cause pneumonia or conjunctivitis in a baby born to a mother with the infection.

Infertility from scarring due to chlamydia is not reversible without surgery, but some male factor infertility due to chlamydia may be. A small study suggests that damage to sperm quality and function may be reversed after chlamydia treatment. (See related link).

Yes, when you are getting treated you can still transmit chlamydia. Patients being treated should avoid oral, anal, and vaginal intercourse (even with a condom) until seven days after single-dose treatment, or until seven-day treatment is complete.

Chlamydia can be transmitted through vaginal, anal, or oral sex with an infected partner. Chlamydia is spread by coming in contact with the discharge
It is certainly possible, but highly unlikely.
You can not get Chlamydia if someone had it but they only touched you.

Sometimes chlamydia surface antigens change, and make it hard for the immune system to keep up. It also appears that chlamydia may release toxins that damage the immune response in some cases. (see related link).

It would not be 'created' by simply wearing underwear more than one day. It is transmitted through sexual contact with someone that has it. You can't get chlamydia from reusing dirty underwear, even if you wore it before treatment. Chlamydia does not live for more than a few minutes outside your body.

No, sulfamethoxazole does not cure chlamydia.

Some women have irregular vaginal bleeding with chlamydia, whether between periods or after sex. If you're having that symptom or if you're at risk for chlamydia, get a checkup. If you're having irregular bleeding for more than a month, or associated with pain, or if it occurs after vaginal intercourse, or if you have an IUD in place, or if you're at risk of pregnancy, get a checkup.